COMP3420 - Course content and schedule

Course schedule   (last update 10 March 2009)

Semester week
(year week)
Date
Lecture
BoZo B17 School of Botany and Zoology
(building number 44)
Tutorials / Labs
Computer Science and Information Technology Building
Assignments/
Tutorial Answers
1 (8) 24 Feb Introduction to DW & DM(Weifa)    
1 (8) 25 Feb Data warehouses and data mining relationships
DW and DM applications (Weifa)
   
2 (9) 3 Mar Overview of data preprocessing
Descriptive data summarization (Weifa)
   
2 (9) 4 Mar Data Cleaning/Data Integration
Data Transformation (Weifa)
   
3 (10) 10 Mar Data reduction (Weifa) Tab/Tutorial 1  
3 (10) 11 Mar Data Linkage and Geocode matching (Peter) Tab/Tutorial 1  
4 (11) 17 Mar Data discretization
Concept hierarchy generation and summary (Weifa)
  Assignment 1 out
Tut.1's Answer out
4 (11) 18 Mar Data Warehousing
A multi-dimensional data model (Weifa)
   
5 (12) 24 Mar no lecture Tab/Tutorial 2  
5 (12) 25 Mar Data warehouse architecture
Data warehouse implementation (Weifa)
Tab/Tutorial 2  
6 (13) 31 Mar Datacube computation(I) (Weifa)   Assignment 2 out
6 (13) 1 Apr Datacube computation(II) (Weifa)   Tut. 2's Answer out
7 (14) 7 Apr No Lecture Tab/Tutorial 3  
7 (14) 8 Apr No Lecture Tab/Tutorial 3 Assignment 1 due
Thursday 5:00pm April 9
Mid Semester Break (Friday 10 April - Sunday 26 April)
8 (17) 28 Apr Introduction to association mining (Denny)   Tut. 3's Answer out
8 (17) 29 Apr Advanced association mining /
Introduction to cluster analysis (Denny)
   
9 (18) 5 May Advanced cluster analysis (Denny) Tab/Tutorial 4  
9 (18) 6 May Introduction to classification and prediction and decision tree induction /
Bayesian classification and evaluating classifier performance (Denny)
Tab/Tutorial 4  
10 (19) 12 May Rule-based classification and artificial neural networks (Denny)   Tut. 4's Answer out
10 (19) 13 May Support vector machines, other classification methods, and prediction (Denny)    
11 (20) 19 May Mining data streams and time series (Denny) Tab/Tutorial 5  
11 (20) 20 May Web data mining /
Text data mining (Denny)
Tab/Tutorial 5  
12 (21) 26 May Privacy-preserving data mining and data sharing (Peter)   Tut. 5's Answer out
12 (21) 27 May No lecture   Assignment 2 due
(Friday 29 May, 12:00 Noon)
13 (22) 2 Jun Course review and exam preparation (Weifa and Peter) Tab/Tutorial 6  
13 (22) 3 Jun No lecture Tab/Tutorial 6 Tut. 6's Answer out